Season 1 Episode 7: Biblical Violence and Native American History

Bible stories contain brutal violence. Jennifer and Jeanne reflect on some real-life consequences connected to the violent stories at the center of Christian culture, using Sherman Alexie’s poem “Crow Testament” and American independent film Dead Man.

Works Cited and Consulted:

Sherman Alexie, “Crow Testament”

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2014.

Joy Harjo, “Exile of Memory,” in An American Sunrise. W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man, 1995.

Tina Pippin, Apocalypse as Horror,

Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford University Press, 1985.

Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction, 1994.